Suspect wanted in Ponce De Leon homicide arrested by BCSO

Sunday

PANAMA CITY — A suspect wanted in the fatal shooting of a Ponce De Leon man was located and taken into custody by the Bay County Sheriff's Office over the weekend.

William Jared Jones, 43, has been arrested and charged with an open count of murder in the March 9th shooting of a man on Byrd Road in Ponce De Leon.

According to the Walton County Sheriff's Office, the two men got into an altercation in Ponce De Leon, resulting in Jones shooting the victim twice and fleeing the area in a pickup truck. The victim was taken to a hospital in Holmes County but died from his injuries at the hospital.

The Bay County Sheriff's Office was then able to locate Jones and the potential murder weapon at a home in Vernon, where he was taken into custody. Jones has been booked into the Bay County Jail.

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